Repeat offenders face more severe punishment as the crime could be treated as a felony.
“In many US States run by liberals, e.g. California, shoplifting is not a crime until it reaches a threshold of $900. If you have a store, anyone can walk in, take an item worth $500 and walk out. Don’t bother calling the police,” reads aReposted more than 720 times, the post was shared by Nigerian author Kalu Aja based in France.
The post features a 45-second clip showing a man with a face covering ransacking shelves in a store. Another man can be heard telling him not to steal from the store. The would-be thief gets pinned down and flogged by the store attendants. Several US companies have closed stores in major cities as organised retail theft continues to eat into profits. in 2022 through shrinkage, with theft being the prime driver. The loss was estimated to be $94 billion the previous year . This implies that if the value of the stolen goods exceeds $950, the suspect may be tried for burglary instead.